Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Author: Mary Roach
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: 0393064646
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.

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Book Review: Maimonides and G-Spots
Summary: 5 Stars

The purpose of non-fiction is to persuade, inform, debate. In the case of Mary Roach, science writer, the purpose is to inform. When I put down a work of non-fiction and I find myself knowing things I didn't know before, the book has been effective. But at the end of this book, I knew about Kinsey, Maimonides, what a g-spot is and how to find it- such a broad range of topics shows that all knowledge is connected and a good researcher knows how to find those connections.
I love to learn, I love to laugh and I think Mary Roach did her job with this book.

Summary of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. The study of sexual physiology-what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better-has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. Mary Roach, "the funniest science writer in the country" (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

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